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In simplest terms, a dependent variable is the a variable that depends on another variable.For example, if you are doing a biology lab, you may measure the length of time you leave something in acid with the change that it makes in the mass of an object. The change in mass is a variable, and it is dependent on the length of time you leave the object in the acid - so it is the dependent variable.
A dependent variable depends on the independent variable. If you are doing an experiment about how temperature affects the heat of water then the independent variable would be the temperature, as that is what you are going to change, and the dependent variable the water as the temperature of the water depends on the temperature surrounding it.
It is called the dependent variable because it depends on what the independent variable is doing.
In a science experiment, the independent variable is the one you change. For example: if you are doing an experiment on the impact of different types of soil on plant growth, the different types of soil would be your independent variable. The dependent variable is the outcome, or whatever the independent variable directly impacts. In this case, the dependent variable is the height of each plant.
The independent variable determines the value of other variables and is change by the person doing the experiment. The dependent variable is what is affected by the independent variable; it "depends" on the independent variable.
All factors in an expermient are called variables. The variable you can change yourself is called the independent variable; the one you expect to change and monitor accordingly (and where you get your results from) is called the dependent variable.
The three variable in an experiment are independent, dependent, and controlled. The independent is the variable you control, the dependent is the variable that will change according to the independent. The control is kept constant so they do not affect the dependent.
Dependent variable would be : too many jellyfish. Independent variable would be tentacles probably.
If you are doing an experiment to find colour's effect on emotions, the coulour would be the independent variable because it is what you are controlling, and the emotions would be the dependent variable because they are the results.
If you are not doing an experiment, there is no variable.
THE TYPES OF VARIABLES1.Constant or Controlling Variablesvariables that you do not change all throughout the experiment.2.Manipulated Variablevariable that you change in the activity.They are also called the Independent Variable3.Responding Variablevariable that result by changing the variablealso called as the Dependent Variable in doing such activity ,Far Test can be achieve by changing only one variable at a time.